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Kharagpur IIT to get Rs 400 crores for the development of infrastructure and
courses
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NewsByte on 02 March, 2008 12:23:00
 
The ministry of human resource and development (HRD) has sanctioned Rs 400
crores for the development of infrastructure and courses in IIT-Kharagpur. The
amount will be paid in instalments during the next five years.
"After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that all the IIT institutes
should expand their courses and develop research facilities, we submitted a
proposal to the HRD ministry, who later sanctioned the amount. We have received
Rs 65 to Rs 70 crores for this fiscal year," deputy-director of IIT-Kharagpur
Madhusudan Chakraborty said.
The institute is currently engaged in recruiting almost 150 professors and
teachers for all streams. A new lecture theatre, tutorial class complex where a
large number of students can be accommodated, a large laboratory complex with
infrastructure for physics, chemistry, language, drawing and others are also
going to come up on the campus. Besides these, three hostels with an
accommodation for 2,000 students with a separate one for girls has been included
in the plan.
The institute is going to invest in new courses and come up with centres like
the school of entrepreneurship, steel technology centre and a centre for
telecommunications.
A former student has donated $1 million with the help of which the authorities
will come up with a new centre under the name of Ranger and Titre Gupta School
of Infrastructure and Management.